This Poster Glorifies Animation Artists As Movie Stars

Young ladies, put down that issue of Tiger Beat because this is the only poster you’ll ever need to hang above your bed. These cartoon hunks were painted by Nick Runge for “From Hanna-Barbera to Cartoon Network,” an art show that displayed recently at Cartoon Network Studios. If you can peel your eyes away from the dreamboat parade, the rest of the art from the exhibit can be viewed HERE.

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BAlborough

Don’t tease! Are any of these available to buy as prints?

Mister Twister

Looks like somebody likes Drew Strusan.

James

Man, at first, I was very sure that it was Drew Struzan who painted this poster. I just discovered a new artist today!

truteal

What? no David Feiss?

jonhanson

As a guy raised on Cartoon Network I can’t tell you how much I love this!

Adrian C.

For a moment, I was wondering “Why is Guiillermo Del Toro on this poster?” Then I realized it was Pendleton Ward.-_-

Anyway, this is a very handsome piece. It’s really excellent work.

Scoop

Don’t you mean “Young men, put down your Kleenex boxes because this is the only poster you’ll ever need to hang above your bed” ? Good poster, regardless.

ddrazen

Loved the Foster’s Home poster. Has the same retro feel as the non-CN “My Life As A Teenage Robot.”

Caitlin Cadieux

This is amazing and I’d definitely hang this.

guesty

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Mustafa

The poster is great but it should be large enough to include the many transitional artists and writers who formed the lineage from Hanna and Barbera to the quartet pictured. It was not one swift quantum leap from William D. Hanna and Joseph R. Barbera to those four people.

Fried

And let’s put the storyboard artists, and foley artists, and character designers, and background artists, and screenwriters, and voice actors, and just cram hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of employees onto a single poster to make sure everyone gets equal credit!